To me the number 42 connotes with both the lottery, social groups of 3 people where one of them is just a third wheel, and math.
I have memories of old style colored balls pulled by a woman from some long red twisting pipe in which the balls roll from some one big ball of lottery balls container and I dunno why but I remember the balls 2 and 4 from there and I associate those numbers with statistics/odds/luck/math.

~ 22/06/2017, על מנת צמצום עלויות הוכרז רשמית על הריגת הפורום ~~ In 15/07/2017 began the slow and painful death ~~ In 31/07/2017 a few survivors were discovered in the ruins ~ts19: Dontouchmeplz
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More than 43 million people tuned in to at least some part of the highly acclaimed Baseball documentary miniseries on PBS in September, 1994, giving Ken Burns' brainchild the largest cumulative audience in the network's 25-year history

There are 46 human chromosomes...
also 46 comes after 45, and "45 is the sum of the decimal digits, 123456789 and is obviously the sum of them in reverse too, if you subtract 123456789 from the reverse 987654321 you get 864197532 the sum of which is also 45" XD